Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice (Lloyd Berg - N9LB)
I had a similar situation about 15 years ago with my next door neighbor who
had something in his house that was giving me S9 raspy noise 24x7. I could not
find the source in his house but I suspected his doorbell transformer that was
buried inside a wall of his house. The noise precluded all DX on 160 not to
mention everything else.
I purchased an MFJ-1026 and had a sense antenna directly between my vertical
(receiving antenna) and his house. I was able to completely null out the noise
from his house right down to atmospherics. I worked a lot of DX using the 1026
and about 4 years later the noise went away without explanation.
You can put up flags, loops, pennants... whatever but none of them will have a
null anywhere near what you can do with a 1026 and sense antenna .... assuming
that the noise source appears as a single point. You can verify this using a
portable AM radio and using the loop-stick antenna in it to null the noise. If
it nulls well, the 1026 would be a good investment.
Good luck!Greg
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